{"id":502,"date":"2005-12-15T23:18:33","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T23:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/502"},"modified":"2005-12-15T23:18:33","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T23:18:33","slug":"bowing-to-pressure-retailers-agree-to-take-lords-name-in-vain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/502","title":{"rendered":"Bowing to pressure, retailers agree to take Lord&#8217;s name in vain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Docbug Exclusive \u2014<\/b> Faced with a potential <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afa.net\/targetboycott.asp\">boycott<\/a> from right-wing Christian groups, retailers <a href=\"http:\/\/media.afa.net\/newdesign\/ReleaseDetail.asp?id=3332\">Target<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afa.net\/Activism\/IssueDetail.asp?id=183\">Lowes<\/a> have agreed to reinstate their long-standing policy of using Christ&#8217;s name for cheap commercial gain. The companies were targeted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afa.net\/\">American Family Association<\/a> because they refer to the word &#8220;holiday&#8221; instead of Christmas in their advertisements and storewide decorations.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative pundits were quick to call the move a victory for those who recognize Christ as an inherent part of the end-of-year buying season. Spokesmen for both companies say they intended no disrespect, and that they plan to institute policies to insure that religion will be more prominently exploited in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"update\">(Update 12\/15\/05: fixed typo)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Docbug Exclusive \u2014<\/b> Faced with a potential <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afa.net\/targetboycott.asp\">boycott<\/a> from right-wing Christian groups, retailers <a href=\"http:\/\/media.afa.net\/newdesign\/ReleaseDetail.asp?id=3332\">Target<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afa.net\/Activism\/IssueDetail.asp?id=183\">Lowes<\/a> have agreed to reinstate their long-standing policy of using Christ&#8217;s name for cheap commercial gain. The companies were targeted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afa.net\/\">American Family Association<\/a> because they refer to the word &#8220;holiday&#8221; instead of Christmas in their advertisements and storewide decorations.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative pundits were quick to call the move a victory for those who recognize Christ as an inherent part of the end-of-year buying season. Spokesmen for both companies say they intended no disrespect, and that they plan to institute policies to insure that religion will be more prominently exploited in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"update\">(Update 12\/15\/05: fixed typo)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}